@apheloria Eutrichodesmus peculiaris is a poorly recorded species and is found from western Japan.
Click here for the original description of E. elegans https://t.co/3rmaw5G1Rc
@LeifMoritz I think there is no any official record of purpureus from Japan. He also treated it as R. okabei in his review of records of the millipedes from Ryukyu archipelago. https://t.co/k4U7HuHLyu
Taxonomic Assessment of a Threatened Large Millipede Endemic to the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan: a New Species of Spirobolus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) from the Yaeyama Islands
#Millipede #NewSpecies #SpeciesDiversity